Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-04
CONGRESS NEAR ITS END
10th BRANCHES HOLD THEIR
LAST NIGHT SESSION.

Tbrongs of People INK"
r,ook at the Two Bodies and the Halls
.fIestsiatiou-Both Houses Put IN
NJ nav With the Belated Biils-An
All Night session.
w,su1NGToN, March 3.--The Senate
,osss.mbIed as In continuance of yester-
dav,s session. Two messages from the
pros,dent we're laid before the
s.nate in reply to resolutions
beratofore adopted, one as TO
the terms on which cable companies have
been permitted to land their cables on
Tho American shore, and as 10 their con-
,rocts with each other aud with the tele-
oysnh companies. The second was as to the
eeryjce of Count Pulaski In the war OF the
roro,ution. The latter was accompanied
hy renorts from the Secretaries OF state,
TraasT,ry and War. They were laid on
the table and ordered printed.
Mr., Edmuuds withdrew his motion to
recon slider the vote whereby The Senate
tew days since passed the House Dill TO
ronfi~m to Emile Guerin and Cherl +.
Major the title to certain lands IN folnt
ssonpee parish, La. The bill is therefore
passed.
NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS.
n
non.concurrence In the Senate amend
ments to the naval appropriation bill, was
presented and conference ordered.
Messrs. Hale. Allison and Beck were ap-
bOinted conferees.
The Senate then proceeded TO conslder-
alton of House bills on the calendar.
The following we're passed: For the re-
pair and preservation of the road leading
TO the Vicksburg National Cemetery; Tor
IN. ID nrnlu nd NJ
Atlanta, Ca: for the relief OF Samuel f..
Rice. of Montgomery, Ala, with amend
ments.)
At a few moments before IL O'Clock the
Senate closed the legislative day of
Wednesday by adjournment, and at IL
O'Clock opened the last legislative day of
the Forty.ninth Congress.
PROPOSED INVESTIGATIONS.
After PRAYER was offered by the chap.
lain the resolution offered yesterday by
Mr., Cockrell for a select committee of
FIVE Senators to examine into tue business
methods of the executive departments in
Washington. the causes OF the delay In
the transaction of public business, as to
The necessity for additional buildings,
ETC., was taken up.
MIR. Van Wyck offered an amendment
4 to add the words: ''And also as TO the
causes OF delay in transacting public
business in Congress-"
The Senators did not know that there
/ was any delay in the department; but
they aid know that there was delay.
criminal delay" in Congress.
The amendment was rejected, and the
resolution agreed to.
The conference report on the House bill
authorizing the employment OF mail
messengers in the postal service, was
made and cOncurred in.
VETOES OVERRIDDEN.
Mr.. Malone called up the vetoed bill
Tor a public building at Dayton, o., and
addressed the Senate in favor of its pas
SAGE over the veto.
Upon the question, "Shall the bill pass,
the objections OF the Executive notwith-
standing,' the vote was 50 yeas to 1Snays;
so the bill was passed over the veto.
Nessrs. Brown, Gail, Eustis, Fair, Payne,
Vance and Voorhees, Dems. voted in the
sffrmative, the division otherwise being
upon party lines.
The bill for public building at Sioux
Ulty, Ia, was passed over the veto by SO
yeas TO 10 nays. A similar bill for the
benefit of Lafayette, Ind, was passed
over the veto by So yeas 10 1S nays. A
similar bill for LYNN, Mass, was passed
over the veto by 81 yeas to Is nays.
Mr.. Hale, at BIO O'clock, reported from
eral deficiency bill. This is the last OF
the regular annual appropriation bills re-
naming to be acted upon by the Senate,
tne iortihcations bill haying been aban-
1oned.
Mr.. Plumb submitted the conference
report upon The post office appropriation
olll' tne result being disagreement with
Iespect to The Senate subsidy amend
ment. PENDING action, the Senate took a
recess from o'clock to 8 O'Clock.
ACRowD IN THE SENATE.
mere was but small attendance of
oenators when the Senate resumed it's ses.
sion at So'clock, and there had to be a
Sail before quorum could be obtained,
uuI the galleries wore closely packed, and
we nalls. corridors and stAircases were
.uiohgeu by great crowd anxious to
SSiIuess tne scenes attending the closing
hours OF Congress.
lhe conference report on the post office
'plplopilatlon bill "a disagreement) was
mst mAeh up, and Mr.. Plumb explained the
mater. The only point of disagreement
was as to the South Pacific mail service
h iue house conIetees declined to agree to
be Se senate proposition. He moved that
on oue senate Insist and ask for further
conference.
n'tel heated discussion upon a mo-
mntit nSn " fecede, which was defeated. the
son.n 10 Insist was agreed to, The
snd nT9 pcohlerees Messrs. Plumb, Malone
0scS) were appointed.
II. MEXICAN WAR PENSIONS.
Ann..Aii 1,, Allison, from the Committee on
bill bifllpaeoprlatlons, reported back the House
mors ,o, esppPPfopriating $4,000, 900 for the pay
ma w.. vi pensioners OF the Mexican war,
"nu ~ IL was passed, '
oersioE ,, bair ti attempted to get up the vetoed
conai9 nsl9n pills, but the Senate refused TO
conslder them. w
N message from the House at 10 u. m.
dsounced the passage OF the urgency
lnd ,e OIL, and the presiding officer
~. 'pe @ OIL before the Senate.
ing ., Gunu =. nds-- object to q second read.
bn s 1.-The ". lhe bill. (The objection. II insisted
"e pteYents consideration OF the bill MT
ny, present session. ! '"' ''iA w
nouse bills wore taken from, tho coIo,,
Ae po pnops passed as follows: Authorizing
kwords. n''.C 10 return the Twiggs
briSsi aothorizing the construction of
bear SSoosye5r pyer the Tennessee river at or
b cono;O ,V.oO O'Clock tho Senate prooeeded
Nh ielueratlon OF the regular defieiency
y,m" "'iS''hg Of lO4 printed pages.
" wal APPROPRIATION AGREED tn
Bale enasih55NSS6roE, AZ ! Sc March A, 3:OOA. M.-Mr.
Feport or :Io' 80 g. IN. made the conferences
be cxnIstsnnne sne naval appropriation bill.
ions i"ed in the report. The appropria-
lon IN The bill now (in adj
|he don. running expenses or
)woen s1i tment dnt amounted TO bo-